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Cathy Wagner

Education

• Ph.D., University of Utah, 2000
• MFA, University of Iowa, 1994
• B.A., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 1991

Research and Teaching Interests

• Creative writing
• Poetry writing
• Contemporary and modern American poetry and poetics
• Contemporary and modern British poetry and poetics
• Poetry and politics

Selected Publications

Books

•  with Suzanne McCullagh, Luis Pradanos-Garcia, and Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan. Lexington Books, 2020
• . Hudson, NY: Fence Books, 2020.
• . Spotlight Series in Poetry, City Lights Books, 2012.
• . New York: Fence Books, 2009.
• . New York: Fence Books, 2004.
• . New York: Fence Books, 2001.

Chapbooks

• Bornt. Miniature handmade chapbook. Schaffhausen, Switzerland: Dusie Press, 2009.
• Articulate How. Washington, DC: Big Game Books, 2008.
• Hole in the Ground. Oxford, OH: Slack Buddha Press, 2008.
• Everyone in the Room is a Representive of the World at Large. Letterpress. Fort Collins, CO: Bonfire Press, 2007.
• Imitating. London: Leafe Press, 2004.
• Exercises. New York: 811 Books, 2004.
• Hotel Faust. Sheffield/Cheltenham, England: West House Books/Gratton Street Irregulars, 2001.
• Boxes. Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books (now Mindmade Books, 2001.
• Fraction Anthems. New York: 811 Books, 1999.

Edited Book

• , anthology co-edited with Rebecca Wolff. Albany, NY: Fence Books, 2007.

Selected anthology publications:

• “Chicken,” Penguin Anthology of the Prose Poem, ed. Jeremy Noel-Tod, London: Penguin, 2018.
  
• Best American Experimental Writing (BAX), ed. Douglas Kearney, Wesleyan University Press, 2017.
• The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, ed. Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, and Patricia Smith, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2017.
• Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK, Emily Critchley, ed., Hastings, UK: Reality Street Editions, 2015.
• The Volta Book of Poets, ed. Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Sidebrow Books, 2015.
• Devouring the Green: Fear of a Human Planet, ed. Sam Witt, Jaded Ibis Press, 2015.
• Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, second edition, ed. Paul Hoover (Norton, 2013)
• Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK, second edition, ed. Emily Critchley (Reality Street Editions, UK, 2013),
• The Arcadia Project, ed. Joshua Corey and G. C. Waldrep (Ahsahta Press, 2012)
• The Sonnets: Rewriting Shakespeare, ed. Sharmila Cohen and Paul Legault (Nightboat Books, 2012)
• Poets on Teaching (Iowa University Press, 2010)
• Starting Today: Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days (Iowa University Press, 2009)
• Gurlesque (Saturnalia 2009)
• State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (Wave 2008)
• A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years (Fence 2008)
• Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Verse 2004)
• The Best American Erotic Poems, 1800 to the Present (Scribner 2008).

Selected Poems Online

Poems

• “Fantasizing During” and excerpts from “Of Course”: “Fweeep or ckkk,” “An I was built,” “What nucleates sky ice,” “In my mother’s belly,” “Techno-optimist,” , Brooklyn Rail (May 2019)
• “The city has sex with Megan,” “Speech by a flaneur—no, a flaneuse,”  Poetry (May 2019)
• “You are part of the,” “English is 99% attached to a rock,” “You Are,” “Bunny slippers,”  580 Split, Issue 21 (Spring 2019)
• 7 poems: “Six Poems for Sketchual Violets,” “Rising Action,”  Chicago Review, "#MeToo: A Poetry Collective" (September 2018)
• "Thanksgiving Is Over," "Lucky Thing,”  Bennington Review, Issue 4 (December 2017)
• “A Rose for George,” “Blink Whole Head in Identificatory Trance,”  Brooklyn Rail (October 2011)
• "Poet's Sampler"  chosen by Rae Armantrout, Boston Review (December 2001/January 2002)

Essays/Articles

• “The Exploit: Affective Labor and Poetry at the University,” Work in Modern and Contemporary Poetry, ed. Jo Lindsay Walton and Ed Luker, Palgrave 2019
• “Naming Names in the Fabulous Real: A Letter to the New Narrator," From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice, ed. Rob Halpern and Robin Tremblay-McGaw, Oakland CA: ON: Contemporary Practice,2017
• “Imperial Partitioning in the Neoliberal University,” with T. Kulbaga and J. Cohen, World Social and Economic Review of Contemporary Policy Issues, Issue 8: "The Political Economy of the University INC,” 60–77, April 2017
• “Messing with the Beholder: Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Embedded Conceptualism,” part of feature, “Conceptual Writing (Plural and Global) and Other Cultural Productions,” ed. Divya Victor, Jacket 2, 2016
•  Poetic Labor Project (July 2012)

Archived Performances

Grants and Awards

• "Writing Lab" Residency, Mount Tremper Arts Foundation, Woodstock, MA, October 2019
• Residency, Eliot House, Gloucester, MA, June 2018
• Research Collaborative Grant for Environmental Humanities Working Group, Humanities Center, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University, 2018
• Altman Fellowship, Humanities Center, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University, 2017

Work in Progress

Wagner is writing essays on academic labor and poems toward a new manuscript and is co-editing a collection of environmental humanities essays, "Contesting Extinctions: Critical Relationality, Regenerative Futures."